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Suzanne wrote:

>>At the moment our Association is looking into different MLS providers. They are as follows: Paragon, Navica, MLXchange, Rapattoni, FPS, and Innovia 2.<<

I served on our MLS committee that researched each of our last 3 MLS providers over the past 15+ years. Our MLS has about 7,000 agents. Most recently we picked Rapattoni about 2 years ago. At the time we felt they offered the best product/service.

Our process was simple. I highly recommend you form a committee of 10-16 agents/brokers. High tech and low tech. Younger and older. Large company and small company. You get the idea. Try to be as inclusive as possible in representing the membership of your MLS. We then looked at the range of vendors and created a list of 8 or so top picks. We went thru Demo's of each of their offerings. We narrowed the list down to 6 and then further researched it and brought the list down to the top 3 and then down to the one we felt would best fit our members needs. It is a process. It also involves a tremendous amount of due diligence in identifying features that you want and that will best serve the needs of your agents. It took us about a year to figure out entirely and then another few months to implement.

You will never make everyone happy. I personally love Rapattoni and find their statistical reports great.

Good luck,

Gary Leogrande

Associate Broker

Keller Williams NY Realty

914-761-7878

Gary@Leogrande.com

www.Leogrande.com